Night shooting deer under CL55 - Police Notifications

Greenmist said:

Are you legally required to inform them as part of CL55 (never used it so don't know)? If you aren't then I certainly wouldn't bother, I did a trial with TVP for lamping foxes, and although the staff were great, to the point we were on first name terms, it was very time consuming at times

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Greenmist said:

Are you legally required to inform them as part of CL55 (never used it so don't know)? If you aren't then I certainly wouldn't bother, I did a trial with TVP for lamping foxes, and although the staff were great, to the point we were on first name terms, it was very time consuming at times

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Deerkeeper2 said:

I suspect many people will wish to use the night licence simply to extend their window of opportunity for an extra hour or so either side of first/last light rather than routinely doing full on night sessions. With this in mind, I could see me using the licence on almost every stalk in the doe season. They are going to be getting a lot of emails from me.

Four years to work on this and it’s still full of holes.

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Firefly said:

Having notified my Police firearms licensing dept (Sussex ) on the only contact available (an online contact form) I’ve received this back.

Do we really have to go through this every time we wish to carry out a legal activity ? The email address to be used might help some.

Dear REDACTED

Thank you for contacting Sussex Police regarding your shooting activity.

Please complete the information below and email it to shooting.notification@sussex.police.uk.


YOUR DETAILS
Name:
Date of Birth:
Home Address:
Landline Number
Telephone Number:

LOCATION DETAILS
Location of Shoot:
Post Code of Shoot:
W3W Location of Shoot:

SHOOT DETAILS
Date of Shoot:
Start Time:
End Time:

FIREARM/TARGET INFO
Target of Shoot:
Number of Firearms:
Type/Caliber of Firearms:

FIREARMS LICENCE INFO
Licence numbers:

OTHER PERSONS PRESENT
PERSON 1
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

PERSON 2
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

PERSON 3
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

PERSON 4
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

VEHICLES
Total number present:

VEHICLE 1
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:

VEHICLE 2
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:

VEHICLE 3
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:

VEHICLE 4
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:




Thank you.

Kind Regards
Firearms & Explosive Licensing Unit
Surrey and Sussex Police - Operations Command
Sussex Police HQ, Church Lane, Lewes BN7 2DZ

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Deerkeeper2 said:

I suspect many people will wish to use the night licence simply to extend their window of opportunity for an extra hour or so either side of first/last light rather than routinely doing full on night sessions. With this in mind, I could see me using the licence on almost every stalk in the doe season. They are going to be getting a lot of emails from me.

Four years to work on this and it’s still full of holes.

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Twodogs said:

The condition only states that you must inform the police but it does not specify the exact details to be supplied. I can see each force coming up with a slightly different set of criteria for information to be submitted.

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Smithyithy said:

Playing devil's advocate, could you in theory enter the date range in which you intend to carry out night shooting?

Eg. if you would be shooting, say, Roe bucks during their open season anyway, could you not then use that date range on the form above?

Notifying for every individual stalk taking place after dark seems overkill..

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Greenmist said:

Are you legally required to inform them as part of CL55 (never used it so don't know)? If you aren't then I certainly wouldn't bother, I did a trial with TVP for lamping foxes, and although the staff were great, to the point we were on first name terms, it was very time consuming at times

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Erik Hamburger said:

My view is you are not legally required to inform the Police of night shooting - you have a FAC that means the Police has authorised you to use Firearms within the rules of the Law and under the conditions on your FAC, and your deer night shooting license is your authority under the Law to carry out that activity.
However if it is a build-up area it may be sensible to do so (?)

In my own area (Glos.) I have had directly conflicting advise from the Police Control Room, my then FEO and the Police Rural & Wildlife Crime Manager, where all three departments told me the other two departments were very wrong. In the end I took the view that I don't need to inform the Police to do something for which that same organisation has already given me permission.

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Firefly said:

Having notified my Police firearms licensing dept (Sussex ) on the only contact available (an online contact form) I’ve received this back.

Do we really have to go through this every time we wish to carry out a legal activity ? The email address to be used might help some.

Dear REDACTED

Thank you for contacting Sussex Police regarding your shooting activity.

Please complete the information below and email it to shooting.notification@sussex.police.uk.


YOUR DETAILS
Name:
Date of Birth:
Home Address:
Landline Number
Telephone Number:

LOCATION DETAILS
Location of Shoot:
Post Code of Shoot:
W3W Location of Shoot:

SHOOT DETAILS
Date of Shoot:
Start Time:
End Time:

FIREARM/TARGET INFO
Target of Shoot:
Number of Firearms:
Type/Caliber of Firearms:

FIREARMS LICENCE INFO
Licence numbers:

OTHER PERSONS PRESENT
PERSON 1
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

PERSON 2
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

PERSON 3
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

PERSON 4
Name:
Date of Birth:
Telephone:
Address:

VEHICLES
Total number present:

VEHICLE 1
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:

VEHICLE 2
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:

VEHICLE 3
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:

VEHICLE 4
Registration:
Make/Model:
Colour:




Thank you.

Kind Regards
Firearms & Explosive Licensing Unit
Surrey and Sussex Police - Operations Command
Sussex Police HQ, Church Lane, Lewes BN7 2DZ

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nf-fuse said:

Condition of the licence though isn't it.

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